When Bitcoin Heists Meet Bureaucracy: SIM Swaps, $5M Theft & DOJ Shenanigans 🕵️♂️💰
The actors in this dark farce employed the ancient art of SIM swapping-a craft so simple yet fiendishly effective: deceiving the guardian of a phone number into surrendering it, and with it, the keys to the kingdom of secret codes. These codes, those ephemeral sentinels meant to guard the gates of cryptocurrency vaults, were intercepted and wielded against their rightful owners. A theft not of brute force, but of sleight-of-hand pretending to be a friendly neighbor.





